I found your bar chart more confusing than illuminating. Does it make sense to mark the bottom 20% of people, and those people’s 43% probability of staying in the bottom 20%, as two different fractions of the same bar? The 43% is 43% of the 20%, not of the original 100%.
Hi bideup, thanks for your comment. The graph is simplified from one in the Pew Report with the left bar representing the lower quintile and the right representing the upper. I see what you mean, but the intention of pointing to the 20% mark is to show where it should be given 100% social mobility. Perhaps the omission of the central quintiles didn’t help.
I found your bar chart more confusing than illuminating. Does it make sense to mark the bottom 20% of people, and those people’s 43% probability of staying in the bottom 20%, as two different fractions of the same bar? The 43% is 43% of the 20%, not of the original 100%.
Hi bideup, thanks for your comment. The graph is simplified from one in the Pew Report with the left bar representing the lower quintile and the right representing the upper. I see what you mean, but the intention of pointing to the 20% mark is to show where it should be given 100% social mobility. Perhaps the omission of the central quintiles didn’t help.
Right, I understand it now, thanks. I missed the labels on the x axis.